A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of…
هسته اصلی داستان بلند دکتر نون وقایع پس از کودتای ۲۸ مردا د ۱۳۳۲ ایران است. اين كتاب در امريكا به زبان فرانسه چاپ شد و پس از آن در ايران انتشارات نيلوفر آن را چاپ كرد. این داستان زندگی سیاسیون زمان مص…
دار سایه درازی داشت. وحشتناک و عجیب. خورشید که برمی‌آمد، سایه‌اش از جلو همه مغازه‌ها و خانه‌ها می‌گذشت. با این صحنه شگفت سال بلوا آغاز می‌شود. داستانی که در آن همه چیز منظم است و منظم…
ژان تولی (۱۹۵۳) از نویسندگان پرکار و چندساحتی ادبیات فرانسه است. او هم رمان می‌نویسد، هم فیلم‌نامه، هم شعر و گاهی نیز کار کارتون و سینما می‌کند. نخستین کتابی که از او به فارسی درآمد، مغازهٔ خودکشی، اق…
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular wi…
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the fo…
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belon…
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession…
A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in process of looking for answers to profound questions that trouble all who take them on: "What will come o…
Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlatırken, insanda içkin saplantıların ve dayanılmaz arzuların sınırlarında gezinir. Özgürce ve tutkuyla …
Felipe Montero trabaja en la casa de una anciana viuda para editar las memorias de su difunto marido. Allí Felipe conoce a su bella sobrina de ojos verdes, Aura. Su pasión por Aura y su descubrimiento…
یک اتفاق مسخره در سال ۱۸۶۲ منتشر شد. این آخرین داستانی بود که داستایفسکی به تأثیر از نخستین استادش، گوگول، نوشت. داستان درباره‌ی صاحب‌منصبی که به مراسم عروسی یکی از زیردستانش می‌رود تا همه بفهمند چه ا…
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his …
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as well as its distinct lack of meaning or purp…
